Microsoft Meets EU Antitrust Deadline 65
An anonymous reader writes to mention a News.com article, which reports on Microsoft's attempt to meet the EU's requirements in their ongoing antitrust case. The updated documents that Microsoft has delivered, they hope, will put off the leveling of a several-millions-of-dollars-a-day fine against the OS maker. Whether or not the documents have accomplished that task will not be known for several months yet. From the article: "The commission set a deadline of July but delayed it until a court proceeding finished in December, 2004. In July, 2006, the commission fined Microsoft $357.3 million for dragging its feet, on top of a fine of almost $646 million in 2004 for its initial violation. In a statement calling the submission of documents a 'milestone,' Microsoft said it had completed the review and editing of some 100 documents, which number 8,500 pages."
Fluff (Score:1, Insightful)
Just maybe.
Re:Fluff (Score:3, Insightful)
Common sense tells me that after all this time and bickering they should have gotten it right by now. Unfortunatly, my experience tells me that my common sense doesn't work very well around Microsoft.
Re:that was stupid (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:What about putting the fine in escrow (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:What about putting the fine in escrow (Score:1, Insightful)
If the fine was X dollars to be paid on Y date and It ends up in escrow on that date pending the outcome of a review of obligations wich might negate the fine, then if it was found the obligations were never intented to be satisfied but rather a stalling tactic for whatever reason, then the interest from the money in question should goto the person who should have had control of it in the first place (the one doing the fineing) and not the person(s) who had no intent to hold to thier oblgations.